One of my countless character flaws is that I will over-state certainty when putting forward a point of view. It’s unfortunate, but a fact of life, that if you don’t have confidence in your view point, you’ll never convince anyone else. On occasion the bluff might be called, but as a rule it works. When you practice it yourself, it becomes easier to spot it in others, maybe a case of fools seldom differ.

Along similar lines and pertinent to CAGWIt is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. / Richard P. Feynman
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The idea that [CO2] drives global temperature is beyond absurd but governments around the world insist that it is so.

In the USA, the CAGW lie survives because 90% of our citizens attend schools that are controlled by the government. In Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia it made sense for the state to dominate K-12 education. So how can one justify government domination of education in a country where the state is supposed to serve the people?